Paul L. Boley
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Law in the News

Archive for November, 2008

11/26/2008

WA State Sues to Enforce Federal Cleanup at Hanford
:: Gov. Gregoire Press Release
:: Lawsuit Documents and Background

Automakers Lose, Again, In Effort to Halt Higher State Emissions Standards
:: Lincoln-Dodge v. Sullivan (pdf)

Legal Experts Puzzled Over California Justice’s Seeming Reversal on Prop. 8
:: Order in Strauss v. Horton (pdf)

U.S. Muslims Taken Aback by a Charity’s Conviction

WA State Justice Confirms Yelling “Tyrant!” at Mukasey
:: Statement of Justice Sanders (pdf)
:: ER Doc/Wife of Attorney Tended to Fallen Attorney General

Conservation Groups Challenge Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan

MA High Court Rules That Online Law Grads Can Take the Bar

FL Ban on Gay Adoptions Ruled Unconstitutional
:: Doe v. Doe (pdf)

Georgia Supremes Toss “Grossly Disproportionate” Life Sentences for Sex Offenders
:: Bradshaw v. State (pdf)

Retired U.S. Court Executive Files Kozinski Complaint

Medical Pot Caregivers Should Provide More Than Just Marijuana, Says Calif. Supreme Court
:: People v. Mentch (pdf)

Think Godzilla’s Scary? Meet His Lawyers

Judge Calls Hearing for Flip-Flopping Stevens Witness

L&C Law Alum Sean O’Day Named Salem Deputy City Manager

Bank Of America Rewrites Its ‘We-Don’t-Need-No-Stinking-America’ Patent Application

Hamdan, Bin Laden’s Driver, Returned to Yemen to Complete His Sentence

Cop Killer Executed By China Despite Protests, Sympathy

Charges Recommended for Speeding Trucker for Causing I-5 Tunnel Inferno

John Holton Added to List of Potential U.S. Attorneys for Oregon

New Details on F.B.I.’s False Start in Anthrax Case

Singapore Court Fines WSJ for “Scandalizing the Court”

Racial Comments During Voir Dire Prompt TV Exec to Quit

iPhone Owner Sues McDonald’s for Leaking Wife’s Nude Photos

Dipping Into Client’s Trust Fund May End Career of High-Profile Portland Defense Lawyer

11/24/2008

EPA, With White House Nudge, Eases Rule on Lead Emissions

Can Erik Holder Fix the Justice Department?

Alaska Drilling Case May Test 9th Circuit’s Enviro Cred

Court Mulls Early Release of Gitmo’s Uighurs
:: Analysis: Detainees’ Entry Into U.S. in Doubt
:: U.S. v. Odeh (4th Amendment) (pdf)
:: U.S. v. Odeh (5th Amendment) (pdf)
:: U.S. v. Odeh (misc.) (pdf)

More Americans Serving as Their Own Lawyers

Closing Guantanamo Prison May Be the Easy Part for Obama

Apple Sued Over iPhone Web-Surfing Technology

Even Law Degrees Have a Downside